Final Blog

There have been a few improvements on my writing.  The thing i got the best at is following the MLA guidelines for the most part.  I also go better at presenting an argument in a paper, or at least i try to.  The strategies that worked best for me were the out line work that i picked up on by the end of the semester.  None of the papers were very easy to complete, but if i had to choose one i would say the WE paper was easiest.  I think it was the easiest because WE was the one thing that i could tolerate reading.  The lesson that helped me the most was the one on commas because now i have a better understanding on how to use them. I do not feel more prepared to write a college level paper because all teachers expect different things, i will have to adapt to their style of paper just like i had to adapt you your style.

Class Discussion

I think that the class discussion we had yesterday was a very good one.  It not only cleared everything up for me in the Goblin poem. Because i didnt really see the whole sex thing when i read it by myself.  But it also presented new ideas and showed symbols that i didnt pick up on at first.  The one that i thought was pretty cool was the fruit and how it represented sin, which further hints that when the girl gives up he lock of hair, she isnt giving up hair at all but instead her v card.

The Flea

I dont understand how the flea could take life from anything.  I think that the flea might be a person that is cheating on the authors wife.  So i think that the whole poem is about adultery.  In the beginning i think that he his questioning whether or not his wife is actually doing what he is thinking.   Then in the middle of the poem when he talks with the three, he finds out that there are three people in the relationship and he becomes depressed in a way. then he talks about the purpled thy nail in blood of innocence he is saying, how is this fair to me? i didnt do anything.

Poetry

My experience for poetry was really not an experience.  I have read some poetry in high school but i really dont like it at all.  I mean it wasnt horrible but it was just really not fun at all.  The poetry that i have read was emily Dickinson, and Edger Allan Poe.  But other than that i havent really read much.  And outside of school i have never read much poetry.

Essay topic.

I think i am going to try to write about the effects of media on how effects what is important to us and how the lack of media effected what Faustus thought was important.  I Believe the points i would like to make is first say how the media effects the world today, then i would like to say something about how the only form of media back in the renaissance i believe would be the church.  If there was more then that there would be no convent way to distribute the news and or make it in a way beside just word to mouth. Then i would possibly take those two things and compare those two and see how these two differences make a difference in the social and ethical standards.

class discussion

The discussion that we had in class the other really got me thinking about the angles and how their part in the play influence Faustus and how they show what kind of man he really is.  It shows that even though he is a given the good choice, he always goes with what the bad angle wants him to do.  This just shows that he is power hungry and he doesnt really care about his soul if he has power on earth.

Something interesting

I thought it was interesting that when the clown, who seems like it should be the comic relief character, has such a dark part in the play.  When he enters the play the two devils are introduced.  Then in the next scene he has to describe them and I think that he gets threatened by one of the dark magic people.  I just thought it was very ironic how a happy character, or the person who is supposed to be funny back then brings such a dark humor to the play as opposed to lightening the mood.